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Capture

Hila Ratzabi - Capture

Poetry

Hila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022), which won a gold Nautilus Book Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Her… Read more »

Fishing Trip

Kelly Terwilliger - Fishing Trip

Poetry

Kelly Terwilliger is the author of two collections of poetry and a forthcoming book combining poetry, painting, and prose. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the US, Canada, and… Read more »

For Sylvia

Daniel J. Rortvedt - For Sylvia

Poetry

Daniel J. Rortvedt is a writer, educator, founding editor of Vilas Avenue, and author of the poetry chapbook Layers (2024). His poetry appears in Lunch Ticket, word west revue, JAKE, Bulb Culture… Read more »

Jemma Leigh Roe - Ma

Poetry

Jemma Leigh Roe is the author of Running with the Hare, winner of the 2024 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Her poems and artwork have appeared in Sonora Review, Redivider, The Baltimore… Read more »

Mannequins on Smoke Break

Merrill Oliver Douglas - Mannequins on Smoke Break

Poetry

Merrill Oliver Douglas’s first full-length collection, Persephone Heads For the Gate, won the 2022 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook… Read more »

sun’s coming up

Nicholas Barnes - sun’s coming up

Poetry

Nicholas Barnes is a poet living in Portland, Oregon, whose work has appeared in over eighty publications, including Redivider, HAD, and Cola Literary Review. His debut chapbook, Restland, is… Read more »

What Hope Is There

Kimberly Gibson-Tran - What Hope Is There

Poetry

Kimberly Gibson-Tran studied linguistics at Baylor and The University of North Texas. Her recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Passages North, Reed Magazine,… Read more »

Wisconsin, Summer

Hannah Keziah Agustin - Wisconsin, Summer

Poetry

Hannah Keziah Agustin is from Manila, Philippines, and resides in New York City. Her work is found and forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Read more »

For Sylvia

Daniel J. Rortvedt

Twelve years after her death my father and I play golf. Sunday afternoon. 82 degrees. We search for a stray golf ball in the long grass and do not find it. Our presence lifts one wild crane from the field.